ArticleScientific reports2023
Pontomedullary junction as a reference for spinal cord cross-sectional area: validation across neck positions.
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- Fully-automated estimation of upper cervical cord cross-sectional area using pontomedullary junction referencing in multiple sclerosis.Frontiers in neuroimaging · 2025Article
- Rootlets-based registration to the PAM50 spinal cord template.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Reproducible Spinal Cord Quantitative MRI Analysis with the Spinal Cord Toolbox.Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2024Review
- Automatic segmentation of the spinal cord nerve rootlets.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Spinal cord evaluation in multiple sclerosis: clinical and radiological associations, present and future.Brain communications · 2024Review
- A simplified approach to define cervical vertebral levels in spinal cord MRI studies.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of NeuroimagingArticle
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Abstract
Spinal cord cross-sectional area (CSA) is an important MRI biomarker to assess spinal cord atrophy in various neurodegenerative and traumatic spinal cord diseases. However, the conventional method of computing CSA based on vertebral levels is inherently flawed, as the prediction of spinal levels from vertebral levels lacks reliability, leading to considerable variability in CSA measurements. Computing CSA from an intrinsic neuroanatomical reference, the pontomedullary junction (PMJ), has been proposed in previous work to overcome limitations associated with using a vertebral reference. However, the validation of this alternative approach, along with its variability across and within participants under variable neck extensions, remains unexplored. The goal of this study was to determine if the variability of CSA across neck flexions/extensions is reduced when using the PMJ, compared to vertebral levels. Ten participants underwent a 3T MRI T2w isotropic scan at 0.6 mm
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